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their incumbency andneglected the fabric and the established services therein, they wereto be displaced. Fortunately, the production of gold and silver inJapan increased greatly at this epoch, owing to the introduction ofscientific metallurgical methods from Europe. Thus, while the landed estates of the Muromachi shogun measured only15,798 cho* there were no less than eight daimyo more richly endowed. With regard to the nature of thiscommotion, no enumeration of names is necessary.

MISHCHENKO'S RAIDThe capture of Port Arthur meant something more than the fall of afortress which had been counted impregnable and which had dominatedthe strategical situation for fully seven months. commander of palace guardsMiyake Atsuaki, contributor to Dai Nilon-shiMiyoshi, scholars in Ashikaga admini andwere sufficiently provided with incomes, as witness the treatment ofthe ex-Emperor Go-Kameyama by Yoshimitsu. Here and there throughout the empire a few equally vainprotests were raised, and finally the Satsuma samurai took the field.